The former president has resumed his campaign activities in Doral, where he made unfounded allegations without specifying his running mate.
Donald Trump made his return to the campaign trail in Florida on Tuesday night, where he criticized Joe Biden and aired familiar grievances, but did not announce his running mate for November’s general election.
The former president and presumptive Republican nominee spoke to a crowd of several hundred supporters at his golf club in Doral, a western suburb of Miami, beginning his freewheeling monologue more than an hour later than scheduled in 90F heat.
Speculation arose that he might announce Florida senator Marco Rubio as his vice-presidential pick, but instead, Trump delivered a 75-minute speech attacking Biden and his debate performance, raising questions about the 81-year-old president’s ability for a second term.
Trump airs list of false grievances at Florida rally: ‘We don’t eat bacon anymore’ https://t.co/CuIsTcmJNQ
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The post-debate chaos has led to demands from certain senior Democrats for Biden to resign and for Kamala Harris to be chosen as the nominee.
The Democratic party’s radical left wing is currently experiencing internal turmoil and disarray, as they struggle to determine which of their candidates, Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, is less suitable for the presidency. This sentiment was expressed using derogatory language towards the pair.
The Democratic party’s recent concerns are unfounded; the reality is that it won’t make a difference who they choose as their nominee, as we are confident in our ability to win by a significant margin.
Trump has maintained a less visible presence in the days following the debate, with an aide describing this as a deliberate strategy to let Democrats criticize each other after Biden’s poor debate showing.
His comments on Tuesday stood out for including the vice-president’s name in multiple criticisms of Biden’s policies, and also referencing Rubio and Byron Donalds, a Republican congressman from Florida who is rumored to be on Trump’s list of potential vice-presidential candidates.
Overtop sweeping music, Trump went for a tear-jerking moment, only to suddenly veer into complaining about something else. It’s included in full because it’s just that wild.
“We will institute the powerful death penalty for drug dealers, where each dealer is responsible for the death, during their lives, of 500 people or more,” he said.
“Mothers will never again be forced to watch their children overdosing in hosp… and we will never allow mothers to watch their child hopelessly dying in their arms screaming, ‘What can I do, what can I do? Help me God, what can I do?’ We are a nation whose once revered airports are a dirty, crowded mess,” Trump continued, pivoting suddenly.
“You sit and wait for hours and then are notified that the plane won’t leave, that they have no idea when they will. Where ticket prices have tripled. They don’t have the pilots to fly the planes, they don’t seek qualified air traffic controllers, and they just don’t know what the hell they are doing.”
Trump in Doral: "Mothers will never again be forced to watch their children overdosing and hosp–lee. And we will never allow mothers to watch their child hopelessly dying in their arms, screaming, 'What can I do? What can I do? Help me God, what can I do?' We are a nation whose… pic.twitter.com/kESw73FQ44
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 10, 2024
From the death penalty to crying mothers and crappy airports, if Trump was hoping for an emotional moment, he seems to have missed it by a mile. His breakneck pace and awkward delivery suggests that the presumptive Republican nominee doesn’t actually care about a single one of his randomly assembled points. How can anyone take him seriously when he speeds from his often repeated, baseless claims about immigrants, to whining that as a country, “We don’t eat bacon anymore”? Trump continued to rely on blatant fear-mongering to excite his supporters, who grew sleepy and disinterested as the former president rattled on through his 75-minute speech, according to The Capitoneshirt.